I think it's about time I started a list of songs that I've never heard at Burning Man but hear at least 30 times per day. God I love living in Office Space. Bonus points if you can't even figure out what the song says.

tamarakay wrote:I carpooled a bit with a lady who's favorite song was the Muzak version of Leaving on a Jetplane. No kidding. Her week was hell. I made her listen to bones, thugs and harmony.

Haha! That must have been absolute torture!

I remember "grocery store muzak" as a kid....and hating it. I've noticed now that even though it's still "muzak", the grocery stores are playing actual songs from my youth/young adulthood and I have been caught dancing/singing along in the aisles... It's all a ploy....

I thought 2015 sounded better than the last few years. I think we hit "maximum dubstep" in 2014. 2015 had much more live music and a strange kind of electro-swing and gypsy band kind'o'music. Say what you will but at least it was different!

I bought an mp3 player that would run off an sd card for the Burn, which I loaded up with a bunch of my favorite music of all kinds. I figured out later that it wouldn't play randomly, and only played in order of the albums I added. Every time I needed to skip a track I had to hold down the button for a few seconds. I later realized that adding all the Radiohead albums is way too depressing to play at Burning Man, and it takes too long to go thru every song individually. We had to switch to another a music source for our yurt party.

Next time I will make a specific memory card of just party music. Radiohead is definitely not party music.

rideincircles wrote:I bought an mp3 player that would run off an sd card for the Burn, which I loaded up with a bunch of my favorite music of all kinds. I figured out later that it wouldn't play randomly, and only played in order of the albums I added. Every time I needed to skip a track I had to hold down the button for a few seconds. I later realized that adding all the Radiohead albums is way too depressing to play at Burning Man, and it takes too long to go thru every song individually. We had to switch to another a music source for our yurt party.

Next time I will make a specific memory card of just party music. Radiohead is definitely not party music.

Just take it to a party where everyone's on k. They won't even know the difference.

Unfortunately, I discovered it already did make it to Burning Man: every time I had the misfortune of wandering near Camp Question Mark this year. I think I'd rather have listened to this the whole time:

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But barring that "music," I'd really like to avoid:

- "Rich Girl" by Hall and Oats. That song in my head for a week killed it.
- Any music by Phil Collins
- Music by the Doobie Brothers with Michael McDonald

"The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law." -- Christopher Hitchens

No, I think it was trap music every time I was assaulted by their sound. Or maybe they had some sort of power tool and honking noise-machine. I can listen to (happy) hardcore or hard house, at least it is somewhat melodic, but that trap or whatever it was was awful shit.

"The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law." -- Christopher Hitchens